Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another work area. It thus makes rudimentary judgments on which parts to pick up, but it is still too slow for an industrial assembly line. At a well-attended robot exhibition last month in Dearborn, Mich., one of the star attractions was a similar vision system developed by a brand-new company, Machine Intelligence Corp. of Mountain View, Calif. This firm was founded in 1978 by Charles Rosen, 63, a tall, tousledhaired veteran of 21 years at SRI. Says he of his new vision system: "It's still only the beginning...
...trouble with these characters is that we cannot imagine any one of them at age 60. Even Godard's brand of efficient feminism makes for self-absorbed, lonely old women. Denise's bicycle, if it escapes the automobile, will outlast her men; Isabelle's detachment will outlive her looks. Finally we cannot accept the title, and look instead for evidence of the altruism gene. Who can say he has never received a moment of real tenderness? Godard gives us a few among strangers, none among friends...
...strode into the opulent Lancaster Room of London's regal Savoy Hotel, long a favorite dining place of princes and Prime Ministers. What the 250 guests had gathered for, however, was not an affair of state but of the palate: a British firm was introducing the Churkey, a brand of bird that combines the delicate flavor of a chicken and the meatiness of a turkey...
...Manning has another concern. His worry: "Numbers of viewers are going to conclude that 'only a flaky segment of society would respond to that kind of advertising. I don't want to be like those people, so I'm not going to wear that kind of brand.' " The products will be noticed, he says, but the ads will be turning consumers...
Other western writers have been known to seek higher literary sources; Max Brand once locked himself in an El Paso hotel room and read Sophocles rather than researching the locale. Not L' Amour. He has little use for the main stream of English lit. Or American...